For me, the best survival gear is a healthy body and keen mind. Knowledge of the bush and all that dwell there. Plants for foods and medicines, tools, weapons, readily gathered materials for clothing and food, foot wear and shelter. In a nut shell to be able to walk naked into the forest and survive indefinitely and be better off and more comfortable than many stressed out mortgaged and indebted modern families.:) shell shocked by the ploys of the international bankers and their various terrorist organisations like IMF, UN, World Bank, WHO, NATO, Harper's Quasi Republican owned defacto Tory Party et al, which isn't an endorsement for the Liberals or the NDP or the Marxist Stalinist hiding behind every tree stump these days.:) All rotten to the core mercenaries sold out to corporate plutocrats in fancy hotels we all pay for :0) doing their best to enslave the entire planet when not pillaging or polluting it into heavily invested into the military industrial complex DU created fossil fuel greed driven insane extinction :0) God save the frekin Queen.
Yes, packs get lost, swept away in rivers, stolen by marauding deserters, forgotten during the panicking haste to escape merciless suddenly upon you, rogue, dregs of a dysfunctional inhumanity. Then what. Hope it is in summer. 🙂 You have nothing but your health and wits now.
How would you fare ? Finding an old street person may save you.:) Finding an old Injun may be even better, provided he hasn't been so disabused by the over classes he doesn't kill you himself. 🙂 Don't kid yourself, there a lot of haters in the Injun world. I see them and avoid them daily and I'm native.:0) just too mutts white man they say.:) no justice out there then. Law of the jungle. And they are the masters of that realm..well..:0)..still a few left can find their butts or yours, in the dark out there..:)
Interesting question. Houses burn down. Rioters like flames. Steal vehicles. Nasty stuff goes down.
SO while you sit nakedly pondering what you would do to survive without so much as a fig leaf to cover your self...I'm going to go have a coffee and smoke a cigarette..and yes.. I know many tobacco and coffee substitutes and other mind altering plants in the forests. The elders taught me well.:) All gone now pretty much..just the drug store versions in the lower climes here. Lets hope they keep killing each other as fast as any genocidal cultures have in the past :0) Enough to worry about without Injuns on a war path of revenge and hatred too,
I know, in 63 years enough braves have tried to kill me often enough .:) brrr..reality.
I'll be back and finish this narrative in while..:)
Well I guess I planted enough seeds of discontent this morning. 🙂 A crash course in wilderness survival, is survival tool that can't be beaten with a stick. Or take your chances and hope for the best. The information is easily gotten off the wen with a few well worded searches. Military manuals and native lore. Always gotta have a plan a b c d and e..at least. 🙂 No worries around my camp. Not a hater, just a realist with an epic movie for a life. 🙂 Pretty much seen it all. Done a lot of harsh things to stay alive. But they are the screen play of another day and place.;0) Good luck. Better yet. Get busy if you haven't already and educate yourselves on the very basics of survival with nothing you can hold in your hand until that hand has created it for you. Even then, no guarantees of making it. 🙂 Life's just like that. All the if's and's or but's involved are staggeringly starkly stacked up against us all. Not sure whether the human species is even worth saving..:)
Planet earth would fare better with out us.
holy !!! - CHILL WITH THE HAPPY FACES!!!
Yo man, what you say describes it all, but not quite ALL of it if you havent scratched this into tree bark out there in the nude wild.
I would guess you are safe and sound enough and using an electronic device like me under your own roof maybe ? So what I mean to say is
when this is about survival gear and all, most people just won´t be able to body and mind it out nakedly in the wild, they would rather keep
up *some* civilized stuff, only the part that´s amusing of course - guys who are able to live the ole stone age style make me stand in awe but
it makes no sense to me if I got to be an able survivalist but would then die of boredom. You mean that the worst scenario means there
will not be any boredom ?
Okay, that may be true, too - but that just isn´t what I have in mind. I´d rather stay in my house (got some solar
and stuff so I can keep it up without outside sources for at least a year, depending how much tuna fish cans, beans and lentils I bunker) and
so I can at least watch old movies or whatever else the meaning of life is... I am not using too many smileys so you have to guess when
exactly I´m serious 😉
So when I think about survival gear my first thought is simply how do I keep the zombies and gypsies off of my terrain (right now it is still
illegal to just kill them) - naw, no zombies here yet but early this year my 77 year old 2-miles-off neighbor shot and killed a gypsy who broke in
at night and it took him some months till he got out of jail as all the politicos are really in love with minorities).
You call the cops, they don´t come. orrection - they do come if you tell them you killed the aggressor, but certainly not before.
Survival gear to me first means diverse weapons, aggressive and defensive ones - some of them self-made or rather self-enhanced
I could bloody well replace a Roman legionaire - and I would rather die the death than flee into the woods
but then again I live in South Western Europe and woods aren´t really all the gas around here... so I am armed to the teeth,
waiting for the miracle to come 😉
As long as it doesnt I drive my car and only meet the zombies in the supermarket as in them 80s movies -
some actually smile at me 
I totally agree with "healthy body and healthy mind" being the best first steps that anyone - Prepper or not - taking so that they cannot only survive in this world but also enjoy the experience.
Imagine for a minute that the grid does in fact go down and if you are on all those medications that so many of us are on...they will not be available. If you are diabetic because of being overweight your life saving pills will not be there for you. Neither will high blood pressure medication along with about a thousand other drugs that overweight and underexercised people will need.
I am a big believer in physical fitness, everything from walking around the block to working out in a gym and especially eating healthy - both us and our kids.
Being prepared for tough times is going to mean being tough both mentally and physically and being on good shape will give us that extra edge that we will all need.
Noli Illigitimi Carborundum
(Don’t let the bastards wear you down)
No beauty parlor can bring sheen or glow to our face that a happy and content mind gives. For all we know that there is direct connection between the state of our mind and our physical health. Even our appearance depends on how we feel.
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know matter were you go, there you are.
Most are walking brain dead, to much choline, fluoridated in your water and prescription drugs , mercury in your teeth fillings, vaccines, GMO's, off gassing in our homes, hair dies, makeup. so many many more, stuff most people have no fringing idea about, they suck it up because there told its good for them.
My own sister was over back when the kids were younger, sister said why do you tell your kids this stuff you,ll scar them. I said, this stuff, this info will save there life's. of course they did die there hair, but I feed them organic , so hopefully we clean them out a bit, and yes, shit falls from the ski every day, better to work on that Healthy body and keen mind to be able to decipher all the bull shit out there.
Having a healthy body is simple and actually not too difficult, but all the same it does take daily discipline.